With this driver, these products offer support for WDDM 1.2, which is an updated model for graphics drivers that Microsoft has developed to ensure smooth performance and wide compatibility in their new operating system.

This driver requires that you have Microsoft .Net 4 framework installed, not included in this download. Should you need it, you can grab it here.

Build Info:

12.10-130101a-151427E-ATI

DriverVer=01/01/2013, 12.100.0.0000

Catalyst: 13.2

CCC: 2013.0101.2208.39702

3D: 9.14.10.0960

OGL: 6.14.10.12115

OCL: 10.0.1124.2

Please do not use any other Catalyst profile patch (CAP) with this driver, the one already inside is more newer than 12.11 cap2. Here is the differencies between the cap in this driver and the 12.11 cap2, so you can test these games and check for improvement:

3dMark Vantage (cfx)

Battle Forge (cfx)

Aliens Vs Predator (cfx)

Lost Planet 2 (cfx)

F1 2012 (cfx)

3DMark 11 (cfx)

Crysis 2 (cfx)

Battlefield 3 (cfx)

Dirt Showdown (cfx)

Crysis 3 (unreleased)

Medal of Honor: Warfighter (cfx)

Tomb Raider (unreleased)

Nexuiz (cfx)

Blacklight: Retribution (cfx)

FarCry 3 (single card)

Skyrim (cfx & single card)

GuildWars 2 (cfx & single card)

Borderlands 2 (cfx & single card)

Rise of the Triad (unreleased)

Thanks to ZealotKi11er over at overclock.net for this driver. We had a bit of doubt wether not to post and host this driver as it is very much in BETA stages. So please understand what you are dealing with. However we figured its better to download these drivers from Guru3D.com (where we test the binaries) then on the multiple dodgy file sharing hosts this driver has been launched on.

"THE LEAKED BETA 13.2 IS AN UNFINISHED DRIVER SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO TEST FRAME LATENCY, WITH NO FINAL QA COMPLETED ON ANYTHING ELSE IN THE DRIVER. PLUS OTHER GOODIES INTENDED FOR THE REAL 13.2 ARE MISSING. DO NOT INSTALL IT IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT BETA."

blah blah blah, more forum nonsense. dx9 still makes the most sense even today, dx10 was a bust and the 8800/9800 series are still the mostly widely used cards. The game is extremely well done for what it is, leave it alone. They started developing this game in 2007, so figure it out...

blah blah blah more fanboi nonsense.

funny how WoW first released in 2004 and has dx11 support(before gw2 came out...) also funny how it got dx9 and 10 and 11 support...

Yes they started developing it in 07', but that does not mean changes can't still be made. They mentioned that they would support DX11 after it started development, and decided to drop it. It could have been a choice to enable or not. From what I understand, they still have plans to make it DX11 in the future, just how GW1 rendered in DX9 or 8.1 if you didn't have a DX9 card when factions released.

they im sure dropped it because somebody either in management at anet or ncsoft wanted dx9 support for the sales to windows XP users, after all, im sure they sold hundreds of thousands of copies to people running XP on systems that really arent suited to running the game in its current state, those sales wouldnt have happened if they had required vista/7(dx10/11 support)

money talks......to bad that they have also lost alot of peoples faith and been forced to refund alot of sales due to misleading specs and anger from people who have systems that massively excede the requirerments but cant get reasonable perf...

I love the game, I know its gonna take time for them to get the bugs out and optimize, Hell I prepuchased it as soon as the pre-purchase came up, BUT to ignore the fact that anet dropped the ball, and if you read what the devs have said, they admit this.....its stupid....they KNOW their game runs like crap, they know they need to re-write big parts of the engine.....one of the biggest being the occlusion culling that they relied on UMBRA for and kinda got screwed over....

please dont try and act like I have anet or gw2, I prepurchased, I love the game, I just know its runs like crap compared to how it should run...and having talked with some of the dev's in game and read their comments on reddit and their own forums...they know the games got issues.....

its a big part of why I laugh at fanboi's who act like the games flawless and amazingly perfect......

Espionage724
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#4506509 Posted on: 01/22/2013 12:52 AM

-totally offtopic and pointless rant-

Your post is totally contributing to this 13.2 Beta driver.

About frametime latency, has anyone tried Afterburner and found its numbers accurate?

they im sure dropped it because somebody either in management at anet or ncsoft wanted dx9 support for the sales to windows XP users, after all, im sure they sold hundreds of thousands of copies to people running XP on systems that really arent suited to running the game in its current state, those sales wouldnt have happened if they had required vista/7(dx10/11 support)

money talks......to bad that they have also lost alot of peoples faith and been forced to refund alot of sales due to misleading specs and anger from people who have systems that massively excede the requirerments but cant get reasonable perf...

I love the game, I know its gonna take time for them to get the bugs out and optimize, Hell I prepuchased it as soon as the pre-purchase came up, BUT to ignore the fact that anet dropped the ball, and if you read what the devs have said, they admit this.....its stupid....they KNOW their game runs like crap, they know they need to re-write big parts of the engine.....one of the biggest being the occlusion culling that they relied on UMBRA for and kinda got screwed over....

please dont try and act like I have anet or gw2, I prepurchased, I love the game, I just know its runs like crap compared to how it should run...and having talked with some of the dev's in game and read their comments on reddit and their own forums...they know the games got issues.....

its a big part of why I laugh at fanboi's who act like the games flawless and amazingly perfect......

No, they dropped it because of what I said. I read Anet developer posts etc. It would have delayed the game even longer, and it just wasn't an option. They have plans to bring DX11 to the game still. If they execute that plan though is still a mystery.

I don't know what kind of performance those complaining are expecting, but Nvidia is struggling with GW2 badly. Just one of my HD 7970's can pull 60+ FPS everywhere, unless its WvW in Eternal Battlegrounds or LA (Any major city in any MMO drops FPS, even WoW on its old engine and FFXI). It will dip into the mid-high 30's then. That is completely maxed out. I turn Crossfire on, I don't see below the low 50's in EB WvW.

It is true though, that Nvidia is having FPS issues with the game, and SLI cripples it even more.

AMD on the other hand has huge gains at least with the HD 7 series and GW2. They have a benchmark on Anets site that shows HD 7 series on the top, ex. HD 7970. So anybody that is really thinking about GW2 as their main MMO, or even main gaming title, should consider an AMD HD 7 series card for sure.

This is also OLD, and newer drivers such as this very set improve the FPS and IQ even more.

I use Afterburner to OC.

If you have the time, try for yourself. Compare the fps, and find some spots where the fps is lower with both the 12.8 and 13.1/13.2

Top on TV tower in Sharqi, look out over the city, everything on High/Ultra, then compare the 12.8 and 12.11 or 13.1/13.2, and you will see the difference.

But, its not like the game turns unplayable with the 12.11/13.1/13.2 drivers, its just not as good as the 12.8WHQL.

I probably wont get to do this till the weekend, but I will as soon as I get the chance.

Didusieq
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#4506719 Posted on: 01/22/2013 10:04 AM
Noticed a great performance decrease when playing Portal 2. Especially in maps with a lot of fast moving objects. Huge FPS drops. I had Vsync enabled and sometimes FPS goes to 100+ (should be 60), and sometimes cant play because of 20 FPS.

#4507101 Posted on: 01/22/2013 07:16 PM
I have a 7950... just forgotten to update my profile (will do it now)

JonasBeckman
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#4507104 Posted on: 01/22/2013 07:17 PM
The GCN architecture fixes are but the drivers probably work on any supported hardware (Older hardware shouldn't need those latency fixes anyway.) I installed it to try it but it works really well so far.

The official beta release should be even better (Of course I have no idea how it would be on older hardware, 12.11 was apparently a bit problematic there.) though I imagine there will be several releases just as with 12.11 so there's bound to still be some bugs and other issues that needs to be worked out before WHQL. (Same with whatever 13.x driver that includes the memory stuff.)

The Mac
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#4507110 Posted on: 01/22/2013 07:22 PM
my point was it was specifically made for 7xxx, for tech reports to test with, god knows what it will do on earlier cards.

Maybe it will work great, maybe it will cause your rig to implode. Who knows.

i don't recommend installing it on earlier cards. wait for the official.

k1net1cs
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Posts: 3783
Joined: 2010-11-14

#4507125 Posted on: 01/22/2013 07:37 PM
Well, I can safely say this set doesn't make my 5650m implode, nor did 13.1 WHQL, unlike every rendition of 12.11 betas which BSOD-ed my laptop on every startup after installing any one of them.

they im sure dropped it because somebody either in management at anet or ncsoft wanted dx9 support for the sales to windows XP users, after all, im sure they sold hundreds of thousands of copies to people running XP on systems that really arent suited to running the game in its current state, those sales wouldnt have happened if they had required vista/7(dx10/11 support)

money talks......to bad that they have also lost alot of peoples faith and been forced to refund alot of sales due to misleading specs and anger from people who have systems that massively excede the requirerments but cant get reasonable perf...

I love the game, I know its gonna take time for them to get the bugs out and optimize, Hell I prepuchased it as soon as the pre-purchase came up, BUT to ignore the fact that anet dropped the ball, and if you read what the devs have said, they admit this.....its stupid....they KNOW their game runs like crap, they know they need to re-write big parts of the engine.....one of the biggest being the occlusion culling that they relied on UMBRA for and kinda got screwed over....

please dont try and act like I have anet or gw2, I prepurchased, I love the game, I just know its runs like crap compared to how it should run...and having talked with some of the dev's in game and read their comments on reddit and their own forums...they know the games got issues.....

its a big part of why I laugh at fanboi's who act like the games flawless and amazingly perfect......

wow, stop reading random internet forum garbage and go learn something. DX9 on pc and xbox 360 isnt even the same version, ps3 uses opengl. I also suppose the hundreds of pc exclusive games using dx9 is because of the two consoles right? Its all a bunch of nonsense created by the marketing push dx11 is getting and the internet warriors. They tried the same thing with dx10 back when crysis and halo 2 were released, but vista failed so hard they were at dx11 before people were happy with windows 7. To be fair dx11 is improved in many ways over dx9, but until recently I would target dx9 first. It doesnt make marketing sense to try and make people upgrade to play your game (unless you are targeting a certain audience like battlefield 3 did), and the market is still largely on cards with no dx11 support. On top of all that, lower end cards with dx11 support play dx9 fine but struggle with dx10/11 most of the time. Anyway, dx10/11 is slowly becoming the norm.. it just takes time. Nobody is turning on a switch to force everyone to drop the api/game engine they have been using for years, but at some point dev teams will have to move on to remain relevant. DX11 was released at the end of 2009 and was expensive to upgrade too at first, so now at the begininng of 2013 you expect everyone to have dx11 hardware and developers to target it?
But ya, its the good old internet forum religion of blaming consoles for everything.

BugMeister
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#4507453 Posted on: 01/23/2013 01:28 AM
I appear to have hit a major snag..

After Installing the 13.2 BETA everything went fine - until there was a sudden crash
during a FarCry3 session - sound froze and then I lost all control of input - screen went
black and no amount of CTRL-ALT_DEL attempts wouldn't retrieve the TaskManager..

Started up in Safe Mode (with Networking) with a view to removing drivers, but when
I attempted to remove the CCC via the Uninstaller in Programs and Features in Control Panel
I got a message saying that no AMD software is detected..

On reboot the screen is showing vertical green stripes - I have only limited control and screen resolutions are not as they should be,
though I suspect that this due to the limitations of the on-board GFX - I am unable to use AERO as well..

So, in desperation - I ran the AMD software removal tool - which I discovered on their site, and although this has
removed the drivers, folders and software, etc - I can't get rid of the green lines - there's corruption right through the POST screen and I have no idea what to do next..

I have tried to re-load the 13.2 driver but system hangs when I get to the Windows start-up screen..
I may have tried to re-install the 13.1 WHQL over the 13.2 BETA - would this have caused the problem?

It seems that I may have to remove some specific element from the borked driver, before I can retry..

- can anyone help?

The Mac
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#4507461 Posted on: 01/23/2013 01:43 AM
lines on the post screen would not be caused by the drivers, they havent loaded yet.

This is a hardware issue

remove the card and reseat it.

see if that helps.

kevnb
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#4507465 Posted on: 01/23/2013 01:49 AM
I appear to have hit a major snag..

After Installing the 13.2 BETA everything went fine - until there was a sudden crash
during a FarCry3 session - sound froze and then I lost all control of input - screen went
black and no amount of CTRL-ALT_DEL attempts wouldn't retrieve the TaskManager..

Started up in Safe Mode (with Networking) with a view to removing drivers, but when
I attempted to remove the CCC via the Uninstaller in Programs and Features in Control Panel
I got a message saying that no AMD software is detected..

On reboot the screen is showing vertical green stripes - I have only limited control and screen resolutions are not as they should be,
though I suspect that this due to the limitations of the on-board GFX - I am unable to use AERO as well..

So, in desperation - I ran the AMD software removal tool - which I discovered on their site, and although this has
removed the drivers, folders and software, etc - I can't get rid of the green lines - there's corruption right through the POST screen and I have no idea what to do next..

I have tried to re-load the 13.2 driver but system hangs when I get to the Windows start-up screen..
I may have tried to re-install the 13.1 WHQL over the 13.2 BETA - would this have caused the problem?

It seems that I may have to remove some specific element from the borked driver, before I can retry..

- can anyone help?
I had to do a system restore after using amd uninstall utility. It messed up my WiFi drivers and didn't even correctly remove all the amd software using windows 8. Everything seems fine now after a system restore, no bsod or any issues anymore on my 5850m. Dishonored feels awesome now as long as textures are medium, and guild wars 2 feels really smooth at around medium settings. Not bad for a 3 year old laptop.

ya you are right, didnt realize it was happening before windows loaded.

k1net1cs
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#4507511 Posted on: 01/23/2013 03:27 AM
On reboot the screen is showing vertical green stripes - I have only limited control and screen resolutions are not as they should be,
though I suspect that this due to the limitations of the on-board GFX - I am unable to use AERO as well..

So, in desperation - I ran the AMD software removal tool - which I discovered on their site, and although this has
removed the drivers, folders and software, etc - I can't get rid of the green lines - there's corruption right through the POST screen and I have no idea what to do next..
Vertical green stripes are a telltale sign of your graphics card going south due to overheating; haven't seen one since my 8800GT days.
I forgot which part would be the overheated one though, but it's either the GPU or VRAM.

Falkentyne
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#4507555 Posted on: 01/23/2013 04:50 AM
If you turn off the power with the power supply rocker switch and leave it off for 5 minutes, then power back on and you still have green stripes in POST, if a reseat of the card and cables doesn't help, then it's dead..RMA time, sorry..